Elder Merrill's Current Address

Monday, September 3, 2012

July 16th, 2012

Well we have had an interesting week this week. Our week started
rather slow, we were not having very many lessons or meeting receptive
people. On Tuesday after not having a single lesson in the day we were
heading home and some kid yelled something.
I though he was talking to us, but he wasn't, but when we approached
he said 'I'll go tell my sister the missionaries are here.' We found a
former investigator family that has been taught before. They were very
receptive towards us and already knew a lot
about the restoration.

This week we found a few new less actives here in Pozorrubio.
We found a lady that has been less active for more than 20 years. She
was super nice, but she super didn't want to come back to church. It's
harder when the people are nice but don't
accept you. Sometimes when somebody is mean you find it hard to love
them, hard to care for them, you walk away and might think "boy that guy
was mean.' But when people are so nice it's sad. It is so easy to
feel for them, you know that they are making
a horrible choice by turning you away, but there isn't much you can do.
The thought is more like "boy, she is nice, I really don't want her to
go to hell." We have some investigators and less actives that are very
nice people, but they just don't accept
the message, it is so very sad.

We had one investigator family that is very nice, they are
also receptive, and they also recently moved so we are not teaching them
anymore. Their move came somewhat suddenly, suddenly enough that they
thought they weren't going to be able to tell
us before they moved. What happened was they were talking with a
member and they were in tears, because they thought they were going to
move before seeing the missionaries again. We were informed that if we
had time we should visit the family, so we did,
and we found out they were moving and taught a last lesson there. We
later found out from the member how excited our investigators were that
we came again and how sad they had been when they thought we weren't
coming. We are going to have to refer them to
missionaries in their new location. (Very far away from here.)

In church yesterday I gave a talk, the other speaker went
long so the Bishop told me I only had 5 minutes. So I gave a very
shortened condensed talk, it was alright. The real news from sacrament
meeting though was from other talks. One of the
other speakers spoke on the Law of Chastity, they gave a very fine
talk, our only problem was we received a lot of questions from
investigators after that. Most of them thought the Law of Chastity was
just a good suggestion. We had to teach the Law of Chastity
a lot more times than we expected on Sunday. Overall it was good.